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Sired by Three Bars (TB) and
out of Chicado V (by Chicaro Bill), Three Chicks might be
said to have been foaled under the sign of the Silver
Spoon. Bred by Frank Vessels at Los Alamitos, a brown horse
colt of 1959, he had a great deal going for him from the
very first instant the Vessels’ interest made up their
minds to breed AAAT Chicado V to Sid Vail’s phenomenal
Thoroughbred, Three Bars.

Chicado V was going great
guns when she pulled up lame, never to run again. In the
breeding pen, though her name has been immortalized by the
pounding hoofs of a succession of superlative offspring.
Near as I recall she’s produced five Top AAA sprinters,
plus several AAAs and one begetter that never set hoof on
a track – Triple Chick.

Right here we’re
concerned with that Top AAA Champion – that do-it-all
horse, Three Chicks, certainly one of her finest sons.
During three years of running, though campaigned lightly
under the conditioning of Earl K. Homes, he took three
firsts, two seconds and one third from a total of ten
starts, and has been described as one of straightaway’s
most consistent performers. He ran ROM every time out with
two Top AAA plus six other AAA races to his credit,
retiring to go into the show ring with track earnings of
$22,624.66.

As a sire, Three Chicks
very definitely has arrived. He was credited (January,
1970) with 124 points-earning get, of which fifty-four are
racing ROM qualifiers – twenty-two AAA or AAAT; his sons
and daughters have earned in excess of $430,000 in
straightaway competition and, in the show ring, have piled
up 385 halter points and twenty working points.

Among his most impressive
track performers are Le Etta Chicks (stakes-winning AAAT),
Miss Three Wars (stakes-winning AAAT), and the AAAT All
American winner, Three Oh’s, which made his dad the
leading sire of money-earners in 1968.

Some of the mares who have
come to his court are Moon Dial (AAA), Oh My Oh (dam of
Three Oh’s), Rose of Diamond (AAAT), Miss Leo War (dam
of Miss Three Wars), Leo’s Countess (AAA), Miss Leotoe
Bars (AAA), Cha Cha Chere (AAA), Top Spot (AAA), Lady Gann
(AAA), Vanetta Dee (AAA and a AAA producer), Vandy’s
Candy (AAA), Hi B Hind (AAA), Quincy A Go Go (AAA), and
Toydell (producer of four AAAs). There’ve been a few
other good ones, plus a lot of unknown hopefuls – it
takes good mothers, too.

Three Chicks’ first three
crops to go on the tracks had earned at last count
$433,799, which Travis Ranch advertising has rather smugly
compared to the first three foal crop earnings of Go Man
Go, Rocket Bar (TB), Moon Deck, Little Request (TB), Mr.
Bar None, Triple Chick, Tonto Bars Gill, Sugar Bars, Don
Bar and Chudej’s Black Gold. What the ads did not point
out is the increased moolah of certain major stakes.

But one can’t fault the
fact that Paul Travis’ Three Chicks (standing in Norman,
Oklahoma) is the only living AAAT AQHA Champion that has
sired a winner of the All American Futurity (1968) and
sired a sprinter that was second in the 1969 renewal of
that richest of all stakes. Nor that he was fourth leading
sire of 1969 racing money earners, fifth leading sire of
1969 race wins, sixth leading sire of 1969 race winners
and 22nd on the list of Leading Sires of Money
Earners (1949-1969).

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